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Há 5 dias · Berkshire was alternately claimed by the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Wessex and Mercia and was the native shire of Alfred the Great, born at Wantage in 848. With the Norman Conquest of 1066 the strategic importance of the Thames valley became recognized, and the first Windsor Castle was built, later to become the main residence of the ...
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Há 4 dias · A History of the County of Berkshire: Volume 4 Edited by William Page and P H Ditchfield. Covers the ten hundreds in the western area of the county, bordering Wiltshire and Gloucestershire.
Há 3 dias · Avienton, Aventon, Avington (xiii cent.). The parish of Avington lies on the north side of the Kennet Valley, being one of the many which consist of rectangular strips about three-quarters of a mile wide, running from the River Kennet to the watershed between that river and the Lambourn. It contains 1,185 acres, of which the greater part is ...
Há 3 dias · Warfield Park, which lies south of the Windsor and Reading road, was the residence of Sir John Benn Walsh, bart., whose son, the first Lord Ormathwaite, was Sheriff of Berkshire in 1823, a member of Parliament and an ardent advocate of Parliamentary reform. He was raised to the peerage in 1868.
Há 1 dia · Benjamin R. Curtis, a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, built this home on what is now Perrine Avenue after acquiring the land in 1851. He kept the woods around it open for public use, as it had been for decades. Pittsfield’s original “Morningside” was a sprawling woods, through which Tyler Street ran as an uninhabited lane.
Há 2 dias · History. Uffington White Horse, a prehistoric hill figure on the Berkshire Downs. The Meonhill Vineyard, near Old Winchester Hill in east Hampshire on the South Downs south of West Meon on the A32, is an example of a site where the Romano-British grew Roman grapes.
Há 1 dia · t. e. England became inhabited more than 800,000 years ago, as the discovery of stone tools and footprints at Happisburgh in Norfolk have indicated. [1] The earliest evidence for early modern humans in Northwestern Europe, a jawbone discovered in Devon at Kents Cavern in 1927, was re-dated in 2011 to between 41,000 and 44,000 years old. [2]
